History category: 194783 books
Foot-prints of a letter carrier
or a history of the world's correspondece
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
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There are few institutions in this or in any other country the history of which is so little known as is that of the post-office. The very name, in the opinion of the masses, is sufficient to enlighten them; and beyond this little or no interest is manifested....
Rome. Twenty-nine centuries
A chronological guide
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 26, 2017
The purpose of this ‘guide' is simple. It is to illustrate the incredible history of Rome, now approaching the end of its third millennium. It is also to provide a new kind of ‘guide', illustrating that history. There are many splendid guides to Rome. These guides all follow the same arrangement:...
by Satish Chandra
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2018
Satish Chandra’s History of Medieval India is a comprehensive overview of the history of the Indian subcontinent during the thousand-year period between the eighth and the eighteenth century. History of Medieval India studies this interesting period in Indian history when the land underwent drastic...
by Rhoads Murphey, Kristin Stapleton
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2019
A History of Asia is the only textbook to provide a historical overview of the whole of this region, encompassing India, China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia. Engaging and lively, it chronicles the complex political, social, and intellectual histories of the area from prehistory to the present...
J. E. Lloyd and the Creation of Welsh History
Renewing a Nation's Past
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
This is the first intellectual biography of John Edward Lloyd (1861–1947), widely regarded as the founder of the modern academic study of Welsh history. Indeed, the compliment that pleased him most was that he had ‘created Welsh history’. Published to mark the centenary of Lloyd’s most important...
A Marxist History of the World
From Neanderthals to Neoliberals
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2013
This magisterial analysis of human history - from 'Lucy', the first hominid, to the current Great Recession - combines the insights of earlier generations of Marxist historians with radical new ideas about the historical process.
Reading history against the grain, Neil Faulkner reveals that...
The History of Kappa Psi Pharmaceutical Fraternity
Our Modern History and Beginnings Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
The history of Kappa Psi from 1993 to 2011 was collected and carefully edited in this latest edition of our history. The material for this latest edition was first collected and edited by then Grand Historian, Dr. Kali Weaver, and presented to the brothers on a CD at the 54th Grand Council Convention...
by Alexandra Villard de Borchgrave, John Cullen
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2019
Born Heinrich Hilgard in Bavaria, Henry Villard (1835-1900) emigrated to the United States at age 18 after a disagreement with his father, penniless, not speaking a word of English and without his parents’ knowledge.
Within five years, he had mastered the English language and was covering...
West of Eden
An American Place
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An epic, mesmerizing oral history of Hollywood and Los Angeles from the author of the contemporary classic Edie
Jean Stein transformed the art of oral history in her groundbreaking book Edie: American Girl, an indelible portrait of Andy Warhol “superstar” Edie...
Stamped from the Beginning
The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society.
Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America--it is more sophisticated and more insidious than...
by Rupert Colley
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Arguably no person in history had such a direct and negative impact on the lives of so many as Joseph Stalin. Under the Red Tsar terror knew no limits, it did not discriminate; no one was safe, no institution, no single town or village was immune....
by Sinead Fitzgibbon
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2012
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, America’s youngest President, was assassinated barely one thousand days into his Presidency. In the fiftieth anniversary of his death, this is the story of the man who brought an aspirational new approach to American...
In Command of History
Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2012
Winston Churchill was one of the giants of the twentieth century. As Britain’s prime minister from 1940 to 1945, he courageously led his nation and the world away from appeasement, into war, and on to triumph over the Axis dictators. His classic six-volume account of those years, The Second World...
Blacklisted by History
The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2007
Accused of creating a bogus Red Scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is universally remembered as a demagogue, a bully, and a liar. History has judged him such a loathsome figure that even today, a half century after his death, his name...